Interact with existing supercollider process?

[leshy]

Hey, is there an easy way to connect to an existing scsynth instance and then play with it from node in parallel with my supercollider IDE?

tnx!

[crucialfelix]

Should be possible, yes. Rather than create and boot, you want create and just connect. Look for those methods on Server in the docs.

[leshy]

Thanks for the quick reply, just to document this for others

ServerPlus = require('supercolliderjs/lib/server/ServerPlus.js').default
new ServerPlus().connect()

needed to increase number of users in scsynth (default seems to be 1) by adding

s.options.maxLogins = 8;

to the supercollider init script

[crucialfelix]

Ah, I see that ServerPlus isn't exported at the top level.

It's technically still in ALPHA but I really want to do a new release soon.

https://github.com/crucialfelix/supercolliderjs/blob/develop/src/server/index.js

Glad to hear it works for you. Don't hesitate to ask me about anything or share any problems you are running into.